Richard Zitrin

April 25, 2000 | Law.com

Faxes, e-mails and cell phone conversations create a new realm of ethical issues for attorneys. Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford explore the issues in this month's Moral Compass.

By Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford

8 minute read

September 13, 2002 | Law.com

The Bar Association of San Francisco's minority law student scholarship selection program got off to a good start. When the initial call went out to the legal and business community to sponsor a scholarship, firms and companies responded admirably. But now the program has faltered. The cost has been the loss of dozens of students who, through their diverse lives and experiences, would have enormously enriched the collective wealth of our own knowledge and wisdom.

By Richard Zitrin

6 minute read

April 09, 1999 | Law.com

The depressing tale of a clandestine Prozac settlement.

By Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford

9 minute read

March 26, 1999 | Law.com

Confidential settlements are threatening public health and safety.

By Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford

7 minute read

September 16, 2011 | The Recorder

By Richard Zitrin

8 minute read

March 13, 2000 | Law.com

The debate over whether to lower the confederate flag that now flies over South Carolina's statehouse has some lawyers from outside that state weighing in on the implications of venerating Old Dixie's "stars and bars." That lawyers, always politically astute and often politically correct, have voiced opinions on the subject is not surprising.

By Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford

8 minute read

December 30, 1999 | Law.com

Comparing contingency fee lawyers to hired guns might be a tired clichi, but, at their best, these lawyers boast skills and special talents needed by many but possessed by only a few. The other extreme? Lawyers who train their guns on their own client. In a recent sidebar to the Orange County bankruptcy litigation, the firm of Hennigan, Mercer & Bennett did exactly that, according to Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford's Moral Compass.

By Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford

9 minute read

August 05, 2011 | The Recorder

By Richard Zitrin

7 minute read